C T Online Desk: Five Bangladeshis on their way to see off a countryman have been killed and two others seriously injured in a road accident in South Africa.
A lorry crushed the vehicle carrying the victims bound for Cape Town airport from Pretoria at Beaufort West around 6am on Friday, said Md Tarikul Islam, the director general of Africa wing at the foreign ministry.
All the dead victims are from Feni, according to the district’s Deputy Commissioner Abu Salim Mahmud-ul Hasan. They are Ismail Hossain, 38, Raju Ahmed, 34, Md Mostofa Kamal, 40, Abul Hossain, 35, and Abul’s son Nadim Hossain, 10.
Injured Anisul Haque Milon, 38, from Feni, was set to travel to Bangladesh. The other injured, Nadim Ahmed, 35, is from Gopalganj.
Anwar Hossain, an expatriate Bangladeshi in South Africa, said Milon’s condition was critical while Nadim Ahmed was under medical observation in a hospital.
Ismail had been living in South Africa for 11 years and was supposed to return home to Feni after two months as the family were preparing for his marriage, said his father Shariat Ullah.
“We’re heartbroken,” he said and sought the government’s help to bring Ismail’s body back. “I want to see the face of my son for one last time.”
